Next general election without BNP wouldn’t be easy: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that holding the next general election keeping the party outside would not be ‘so easy’. 
Talking to journalists at the BNP central office, he remarked that the last general election they [Awami League] had held without the country’s ‘largest’ political party did not get any legitimacy. ‘If the government again creates a similar situation, it would never get any acceptability at home or abroad,’ he added.
A framework for the poll-time ‘election-conducive’ government would be given at an ‘appropriate’ time, he said adding that they were working on it and taking opinions of experts and people.
About the contents of the framework, Fakhrul elaborated that the key focus would be how to hold a fair and neutral election where people could exercise their voting rights.
Replying to a question, he said that they had always stated that BNP was an election-oriented party and it would join any election when a suitable field for that poll was created. ‘It is the responsibility of the government to create that field,’ he said. 
He alleged that AL was damaging the system very consciously and had arranged elections under partisan administrations to perpetuate a ‘one party rule’ in a different form.
He blamed ‘normalisation of corruption’ as the key reason behind water-logging in Dhaka and Chittagong cities following rains. ‘Money is taken in the name of projects but no work is done,’ he alleged. 
On the after-effects of recent flashflood in the haor belt, he suggested that the fisheries ministry should take urgent measures after examining the reason for fish epidemics there. 
He opined that the flooded haor areas should be declared a ‘disaster zone’ so that the affected people got the support they desperately needed.

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